Day to Day Headaches : North Pole Nautilus (August 3, 2016)

Today's World News

To Start off 

No one has ‘right’ to hurt gay people, says Egypt’s grand mufti : Shawki Allam’s comments come amid a crackdown on the country’s LGBT community, which has forced many to hide their identities. Know more

An Emirates 777 Has Caught Fire At Dubai Airport : This story is developing and happened at around 12:45pm on Wednesday afternoon. Cause of the accident still unclear, although there are reports of a crash landing. Emirates have released a statement confirming the incident but no further details at this point. Know more

Bitcoin Sinks After Hackers Steal $65 Million From Exchange : Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million of the digital currency.

Bitcoin slumped 5.5 percent against the dollar as of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Tokyo, bringing its two-day drop to 13 percent. Prices also sank 6.2 percent on Monday, although it was not clear if that initial move was related to the hack. Know more

Left Party politician calls for sanctions against Turkey : A leading politician for the Die Linke (Left Party) has called for Germany to freeze Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's bank accounts, as anger builds over Ankara's response to a failed coup. Know more

Vancouver slaps 15% tax on foreign home buyers : Foreign home buyers in the Canadian city of Vancouver will face an additional 15% property transfer tax beginning next week, the provincial government of British Columbia said Monday.

The new tax legislation comes amid growing concerns about skyrocketing prices in housing markets in Vancouver and Toronto, and the role that foreign buyers may be playing. Some real estate officials say Chinese buyers, in particular, have helped fuel price increases for high-end Vancouver homes. Know more

France's Disappearing Mosques : Twenty of France’s 2,500 mosques and prayer halls have been shut down since December for allegedly preaching a radical interpretation of Islam.

French authorities shut down 20 mosques and prayer halls they found to be preaching radical Islamic ideology since December, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday. Know more

First Arab Nobel science winner Ahmed Zewail dies : The Egyptian-born Nobel-winning scientist Ahmed Zewail has died in the US, aged 70.

Mr Zewail won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales.

A professor at the California Institute of Technology, he was a science advisor to President Obama and the first Arab scientist to win the Nobel Prize. Know more

Fear in the Philippines as police embark on state-sanctioned 'killing spree' : People in the slums of Manila are living in fear after new Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte called on police and vigilantes to kill drug suspects.

The ABC recently spent five days in the Philippines, during which time around 50 suspects were killed, mostly while allegedly resisting arrest.

In Tondo, a Manila slum, the ABC visited the family of one man who had been shot by police while in custody. Know more

Rio de Janeiro's air more deadly than its water, study finds : Rio de Janeiro's air is dirtier and deadlier than portrayed by authorities and the Olympics' promised legacy of cleaner winds has not remotely been met, an analysis of government data and Reuters' own testing found.

Brazil declared in its official bid for the Olympic Games, which open on Friday, that Rio's air quality was "within the limits recommended by the World Health Organization." Know more

There you have it our Top News of the day. 


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"The Asian"

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Today's Historic Event

3rd of August 1958

North Pole Nautilus

The US Nuclear Submarine Nautilus is the first undersea vessel to reach the Geographic North Pole 

That's all for today, Thank you.